Year 2 Blog-Friday 2nd October 2026

Date: 1st Oct 2026 @ 6:27pm

Home Practice

Reading: In Year 2, children should read for at least 15/20 minutes every night and talk about the book. This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.

WE HAVE NOTICED THAT SOME CHILDREN HAVE NOT CHANGED THEIR BOOKS RECENTLY.

A FEW MINUTES OF READING EVERY NIGHT REALLY MAKES A DIFFERENCE. THANKS.

Remember you will get a sticker on your book mark for every book you read!

Spelling: Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (19.10.25):

wait     weight        ate      eight        break      brake      sail           sale         pain     pane

We have been learning about homophones.

The children need to learn the correct spelling and meaning.

Sumdog: Addition challenge

Counting: At home, count in 2's, 5's and 10's forwards and backwards.

You may also like to practise the 10x, 5x and 2x table on Hit The Button. Follow the link below:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button 

English

We listened to some more chapters from the book. We wrote our own version of the story.

It was National Poetry Day this week and we wrote a poem about the dark.

Phonics

We have been revising the long a sound, ai as in train, ay as in tray, eigh as in eight.

SPaG

We have been learning about contracted forms of words such as I'll, won't,didn't, can't. The children are trying to use them as often as possible in their own writing.

Maths

The children have been adding/subtracting a multiple of 10 to/from a 2 digit number, 26+20 or 41-30. We have also worked on number bonds to 10 and 100.

Geography

The children know the seven continents and five oceans so well now. During our lesson, we looked at the continent of Europe in more detail. 

Forest School 

We were in our nature area this week. Some of us thought thought we had found a fresh mouse hole and spent a lot of time exploring it .

There was also stick wrapping, bug hunting and climbing.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week - Zara

Super Learner - Harriet

Superstar Writer - Elish

Bookworm - Grace

Mathematician - Noah H.

Special Mentions -Oscar for being a kind and thoughtful friend and

George and Indie for creative natural pictures in R.E.

Thank you for all your generous Harvest gifts.

The children enjoyed the Harvest service this afternoon and sang beautifully.